Driving a 1-of-47 Panther Pink 1970 Plymouth AAR Cuda
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- Driving review for a 1970 Panther Pink Plymouth AAR Cuda.
The 1970 Plymouth AAR ‘Cuda was not your typical muscle car. It was designed with modest-engine racers in mind, built to compete on twisting road courses - what Plymouth built was a street rod.
In 1970, Plymouth entered SCCA Trans-Am racing, contracting with Dan Gurney’s All American Racers (AAR) to build and campaign cars to be driven by him and Swede Savage. At that time, SCCA homologation requirements dictated that a manufacturer build a minimum of 2,500 street versions in order to compete. The single-production-year AAR ’Cuda met the homologation requirements with 2,724 cars built, all during a five-week period between March and April 1970.
The AAR ‘Cuda was different from the regular ‘Cuda in many ways. The AAR had a unique stripe called a strobe stripe, which held the AAR ‘Cuda logo.
The hood is made of lightweight fiberglass. What really set this hood apart from all other cars is the hood scoop, functional and drawing in fresh air.
For spoilers, it had front “eyebrow” spoilers and a rear “duck tail.”
Unlike a standard ‘Cuda, the AAR’s exhaust came out the sides near the back wheels.
All AARs had a 340 6-barrel V8 engine, offering lots of power. The 340 could accelerate the ‘Cuda 0-60 miles per hour in 5.8 seconds, 0-100 miles per hour in 14.4 seconds, and race a quarter mile in 14.4 seconds at 100 miles per hour.
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Very cool, the AAR Cuda is my favorite car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Plymouth Barracuda/Cuda is in my opinion, the greatest car of all time. If I had the money, I would have several 'Cuda's and Challenger's. An AAR is my dream car.
Moulin rouge was Plymouth’s name for FM3. Panther pink is actually dodge’s name for it.
That's just what he said in the video, but no real man would ever buy a car painted Moulin Rouge, but we would by a car the same color as the Pink Panther, there's a huge difference. lol.
And I never heard a dumber comment about the torsion bar suspension system. Wow Peter. In the entire industry when Mopar introduced the torsion bar system, the automotive press raved how much more 'sure footed' Chrysler's suspension systems felt, compared to coil springs used by Ford and GM at the time.
Tom McCale (I think) was a much recognized vehicle test driver back then and he wrote glowing reports as did the CHP vehicle evaluators.
I have two Chrysler Corp factory built race cars, one being the 'Kit Car' race prepped chassis available at dealerships in the early '70's, and the tunability of the torsion bar systems was well known, with different rate bars available up to 1.95" diameter.
Then there's the Petty Industries suspension parts that were used in full on Talladega and Daytona cars built by teams like Petty, K&K Insurance and Cotton Owens among others.
Having a good number of books and magazines written by such as Brock Yates who co drove with Dan Gurney, and Pat Bedard and others at Car & Driver,,,as well as Swede Savage, who campaigned the Challenger T/A version of Mopars Trans Am effort, there's an overwhelming number of datapoints out there to support the outstanding robust traits of the system.
Dan would surely know...especially with AAR on the damned car lol
Nice job Peter.
My first car Dodge Challenger R/T
Fond memories
I've followed Peter and Tom for years, and visited Dream Car Garage for my 40th birthday celebration
Beautiful car! Thanks for another terrific video! Stay safe and stay healthy!
Best color ever
Thanks for sharing the fascinating history of the Panther Pink Cuda!!! This is a great car & the color is stunning!!! 👍👍
Our pleasure!
The drums were self-adjusting. All you had to do was backup and apply the brakes a few times.
The AAR was also the first car produced with different diameter tires in the rear vs the front. They used taller rear tires to help with ground clearance because of the side exhaust.
And the 340-6 pack cars made 320hp. Not 290hp.
I collect 1/18 diecast cars and recently bought a diecast version almost identical to this one. The only differences are the model has a black vinyl roof, it has Cragar rims and is jacked up slightly in the back, and it has a tach on the dashboard, it's hot-rodded. As a diecast collector you want a car you have on display to dazzle the eye and the space it sits just the way the real car does. And there aren't many cars that have the visual appeal and pop of this car especially in this color, so even if you wouldn't buy one in pink to actually drive, it's perfect for display purposes.
Peter, on a Plymouth the 3-2's were called six barrel, on a Dodge it was six pack.
We had a matching pair of Plum Crazy with Black vinyl top 1970 1/2 Challenger T/A's back in the day. They were four speeds with power brakes but non-power steering. I also had another T/A in B5 Blue with black vinyl top, automatic and PS later on. In between, I had a 1970 Panther Pink Challenger with a 340 4bbl, auto, PS, white vinyl top, white bucket seat interior, rallye wheels and a Go-wing on the trunk. Gorgeous car. Sold it to my cousin who married a chevy salesman and wound up trading it in to his Chevy store and they wholesaled it before I knew about it. I chased that car for years with no luck. After seeing your video, I guess I should have chased harder! Thanks for the entertaining and informative video.
Fantastic review, guys!👌 The greatest pony of all time! I proudly add the video to my playlist.
There is one in the Brockton Massachusetts area original paint I see it about once a year
Miss Your show. alot of knoledge.
In 1995 there was a parts yard in a town near by of nothing but mopars. Out in front was a Moulon Rouge 71 Road Runner. I never saw the price but I could have got a '69 Charger or a '69 Road Runner for 1500.00 with dead 440's. I am kicking myself Everytime I think of it. By the way even though the same color, Dodge had the Panther Pink and Plymouth was Moulon Rouge.
Dream car for me.
It's nice to see that you have the cognisance to use the correct tired.
Love 💕 this car
SICK!
Some were probably bought for the wife, girlfriend or a daughter. Women in those days loved muscle cars as much as men
Probably about 40 of the total, haha
Uh, no not even close
I met an owner of a brand new pink T/A in Seattle in 1970. He was a hair dresser, so you're not far off.
Torsion bars are the best ! You could adjust the ride height without cutting springs , etc. And if you wanted to go back to factory , no problem ! I don’t know why you think they didn’t perform , there are plenty of professional drivers that felt like they did , and real well at that . I’ve had a bunch of older Mopars and loved every one of them with zero suspension issues .
FYI, there are 61 known FM3 Pink AAR cuda’s built per the registry.
I know where one of them died. It was burned up in Yakima, WA. I got some parts off of it.
These are such beautiful. I'm 51 and remember as a little boy seeing only one, I don't remember the color but the exhaust sound, hood, spoiler, I just loved the look. Oh I have a question, what is the Screaching as he's driving by?
It sounds like some kind of bearing, but the car was just restored and you only hear it in the one shot, so I think it's wind noise. If was a screeching bearing I don't think they would use that shot.
AAR Cudas could not be ordered by individuals at a dealership.. The cars were actually ordered by the dealers themselves and Chrysler built them as such. Most dealers only received about 2 or 3 cars at most and had to take what was sent to them.. It wasnt like ordering a regular Cuda as you wanted.. They were a very limited production run..
I was about to call BS on that, but you may be correct. When I "ordered" mine, the cars had already been made and I was told they were in a storage lot in Salt Lake City. So I just gave them a list of options I HAD to have, ones I'd LIKE to have, and ones I'd be OK with. They came back with a list of candidates. I didn't even specify a color. If that's what you were saying, then I agree, that was my experience.
Also, when I was shopping different Plymouth dealerships for it, most salesmen didn't even know what I was talking about. "AAR? What's that?" They had to look it up on the sales bulletins.
@@budlanctot3060 Yes, thats what Iam saying. I know iam right.. I happen to own a original EK2 4 spd car.. If you wanted one in a certain color or options, your dealer would have to call other dealers to find one.. often trade one out.. Most people who wanted one felt lucky to get one on the lot ..These cars were already built because Chrysler only had 5 weeks to build them(spring of 70 only) and shipem out.. Most dealers were unaware of this racing program and didnt get much literature because Chrysler jumped into it late.. Then in 1971, Chrysler pulled out of Trans Am racing, so no AAR's were built for that year...they were constructed for homologation as required by the SCCA rules..
@@aarmancuda3570 I'm pretty sure mine was not at any dealers lot. Because I refused to pay for dealer prep, and my car was covered in a wax-like film and it had all kinds of dirt & soot stuck to the wax. In fact, when it came off of the train, i could hardly recognize it, it was so dirty. It was a real pita to wash it off. It took several washes with really hot water to get it all off.
4:28 - Uh, oh - a disconnected hose!
The fact that 47 people bought this color tells me that the dogs didn’t like the dogfood. The age old axiom in collectors cars is “if it was sought after new it will be sought after used”. Please tell me how this car rates an additional 20 grand because its pink.
Oooh yes I'd drive it Moulin Rogue but in Canada Pinta Magenta
everybody i knew that had a smll block challenger or cuda ended up putting a 440 in the car
That's when I got my '73 318 with 990 auto from to install in my '55 Savoy. A guy swapped it out of his Lemon Twist Challenger for a mighty 440.
Why am I not surprised.
Rather have the 340 , made the car handle better and thats a nasty small block.
Strange color, but nice American muscle.
Peter can you adopt me, I need a mentor with a really cool car collection and who is very knowledgeable about autos. 🙃😇
The person speaking is obviously not a Mopar guy.
*Six Barrel
My favorite of all the pony Muscle cars but my least favorite color .
I think you math is 20 years old
$80-$100 for a matching pink AAR ? Think you're off there. These cars are now the most sought after AAR, imho.
This clip is from Dream Car Garage airing from 2000-2011
Gotcha, makes sense .@@legendarymotorcar
Loved , loved to watch you and Tom (RIP , sir ) back then !@@legendarymotorcar
cahoonies ... ha ha we couldn't stop laughing , i told the ol' lady i owned this car (in1984) except mine had white interior but at 7500 dollars it was worth hearing the jokes and it hauled azz
cojones?
@@bbb462cid ok.. spelling lesson ?
@@pameladunn7346 I asked if that's what you meant. If you take a moment from choosing to take offense, I'm still asking.
These cars were simply gorgeous, and still are. But modern cars are so much better.
I’m not buying that 20k premium for the pink car… sorry
Chrysler quality was garbage Ford and Chevy built good cars
The music junked another video 👎👎👎👎💩😬
Torsion bar suspension FTW over coils any day of the year.. ANY..
One of my friends had a 70' Demon 340 it was Pink & Sharpe looking! We went to the track & it ran a time of ,11.43. yes he did some motor work but I really loved the duel good scoops. I saw a Challenger on the used car lot. I asked to see the motor there it was intake air filter was the label 340 six barrel or 340 six pack. It was a dark green 💚 but my dad bought the car beside it a 351 Cleveland 4spd in a beautiful dark yellow 💛. I kept it for 10 years. I burnt a valve & ended up rebuild it. Luv that Pink color too. AAR was at his work at a car manufacture plant factory in the 70s'. Hot Pink is Sweet.